The Cape Avalon Series by W.M. Andrews

 

 

Angsty but sweet Women's Friendship Fiction stories.

Return to Sandpiper Cottage

Cape Avalon Book 1

by W.M. Andrews

Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction, Clean Romance 

She had to lose everything to figure out what truly mattered…

Rachel Whitney is lost. Alone. She needs a place to heal and figure out where her life went wrong. Where she went wrong. But the emotional—and financial—scars her late husband inflicted on her complicate everything. Now, her only sanctuary is the last place she ever wanted to see again.

Sandpiper Cottage.

She’s not surprised to find the house her aunt left her in disrepair. It’s also just her luck that the only available handyman was once the boy who let his friends torment her in high school.

She can now confidently say her misery is complete.

But the good thing about rock bottom is that there’s only one place left to go. And it’s not long before she realizes it is possible to build a beautiful life for herself—maybe even a life that includes a second chance at love.

The only real question now is if that life will be at Sandpiper Cottage, or somewhere else?

Return to Sandpiper Cottage is an angsty but wholesome and enchanting Contemporary Women’s Fiction novel. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will love the empowering message at its heart.
This women’s friendship fiction book will bring you all the feels. If you love women’s fiction with a side of clean romance, this is a great fit for you.

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Shelter at Sugar Beach

Cape Avalon Book 2

She’s determined to avoid romance and happily ever after. Life has other plans…

Veterinarian Tina Archer is grumpy and proud. Being widowed young from a terrible marriage can do that to a person. But she’s been living life to the fullest and isn’t a bit sorry.

Until a routine medical exam reveals the toll her freedom-loving lifestyle—and the stress that comes with being a single mom—has taken on her health.

She knows it’s time for a life makeover and she’ll do what needs to be done.

But when her son’s Big Brother program matches him with the annoyingly charming Clark, everything gets really complicated. Because how is she supposed to handle a man who seems so eager to knock down all the walls she’s built around her heart?

All Tina knows for sure is that it’ll take a lot of soul searching—and help from her friends—to figure out if a second chance at love is worth the potential cost.

She can only hope Clark will still be around when she sorts it (and herself) out…

Shelter at Sugar Beach is an angsty but wholesome and delightful Contemporary Women’s Fiction novel. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will love the empowering message at its heart.

This women’s friendship fiction book will bring you all the feels. If you love women’s fiction with a side of clean romance, this is a great fit for you.

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Harbor by the Sea

Cape Avalon Book 3

No one talks about what happens when happily ever after goes wrong…

Fall in love, get married, have babies. It was a simple dream.

Evelyn accomplished the first two easily. She almost had it all.

Almost.

But after three years of aggressive fertility treatments, all she had to show for her efforts was a broken heart and a painful rift in her marriage. She’d hoped that a dream vacation to the south of France would heal her and her relationship with her husband.

Then Eric suggested she go alone, and she started to question everything.

Did he want a divorce? Or did he just need a break from their shared grief? Evelyn wasn’t sure. All she knew was that if she wanted to find a way to reconnect with Eric, she had to learn to love herself again.

And what better place to do that than a harbor by the sea?

Harbor by the Sea is a sweet, angsty, romantic, contemporary women’s fiction read about hope, the importance of finding one’s own joy, and the enduring power of love. Download today and get ready to root for Evelyn and Eric’s second chance romance.

This women’s friendship fiction book will bring you all the feels. If you love women’s fiction with a side of clean romance, this is a great fit for you.

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I learned to read when I was four or five, listening to my mother read to me when I was lonely after my brother started school. Ever since, I’ve had my head buried in books. I love words – historical plaques, signs, the cereal box – but my first love has always been novels.

A little over ten years ago my husband dared me to write a book instead of always reading them. I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, but to my surprise I love writing. Those early efforts eventually became my first published book – Tempting the Earl (published by Avalon Books in 2010). It has been a thrilling adventure as I learned to navigate the world of publishing.

I believe firmly that everyone deserves a happily ever after. I want my readers to be able to escape from the everyday for a little while and feel upbeat and refreshed when they get to the end of my books.

When not reading or writing, I can be found traipsing around my neighborhood or travelling the world with my favorite companion.

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Time Will Tell by Charlotte Brothers

Time Will Tell:  Book 4 A Year In Cherrybrook

by Charlotte Brothers

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ7ZJYTX 

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Matchmaking Gone Wrong 

The clock is ticking! Widowed Dr. Rafe Reynolds will soon be left alone when Ellen, his daughter and favourite backgammon opponent, weds.   

  

Shortly before the Christmas holidays, Ellen and his meddling sister Mary, convince Rafe to let them find him a suitable wife. Rafe reluctantly agrees, but he also insists that love doesn't matter at his age, and ladies who are loud and demanding need not apply. 

  

Mrs. Lavinia Fitzroy, exuberant widow and old friend, is bold, well-connected and entirely uninterested in marriage for herself. She is just the woman to help find the gruff doctor a wife, but finding the perfect match for Rafe proves to be as thorny as winter holly. One minute everything is going as smoothly as clockwork, and the next, it's gone to the dogs! 

  

Will Lavinia discover the perfect bride...one who ticks all the boxes for the doctor?  Only time will tell! 

 

Book Four in the Cherrybrook year, "Time Will Tell" may be read alone. With older protagonists, it's a later-in-life romance (kisses only)! 

 

 

An Excerpt from Chapter Two 

He had finished his rounds early and came walking home; his house calls had not taken him beyond the village, and he had had no need for his horse or gig. Bundled up and therefore well-protected from the buffeting winds, he hummed cheerfully, starting and stopping intermittently as he trudged past his gatepost and entered the drive. He shifted his doctor’s bag to his left hand and stretched the cold, stiff fingers of his right. He paused and looked expectantly towards his house. As was his custom, he gave a sharp whistle and watched for the front door to open. Nothing happened. He looked around to the right and left, and whistled again. 

If the dogs were already outside, they’d be on alert for his call. Or, if they were inside the house, he’d see their faces in a window. Normally, the door would open, and the dogs would come galloping out with wide-mouthed, sloppy grins to welcome him. Apparently no one, not even the dogs, were expecting him home at this hour. 

He was nearly to his front steps by the time his front door was thrown open for the dogs, but instead of Ellen or one of the household staff appearing, it was his sister, Mary.  

Amidst the excited barking and pawing, she sang out, “Lovely! We’ve been expecting you, Rafe!” 

“I should hope so, Sister, seeing as it is my own home.” Rafe struggled to get his bearings for a moment, but he remembered with some annoyance that he had been informed of Mary’s imminent arrival this time. As soon as he had made peace with this thought, his mind latched onto the plural nature of her greeting, and he tried in vain to peer around his sister. “We?” He asked with a frown. “You have not come alone?” 

“No, I told you I would not!” Mary gestured in mild annoyance. “I have brought Mrs. Fitzroy and her unmarried cousin through marriage, Miss Katherine Stillwood. They are here for the Cherrybrook dance as my guests. Don’t you recall? I wrote and warned you that I would be descending upon you for this occasion? You must remember Mrs. Fitzroy! Well, Lavinia kindly agreed to make an introduction for us!” Here his sister gave him an encouraging smile paired with a penetrating stare.  

“Mrs. Fitzroy. You mean… You cannot mean Lavinia Lawton?” Rafe nearly choked, and in a voice he hardly recognised as his own, he said, “She is here?” Before he had time to collect his wits, the dogs came whirling back up the stairs passing him on the top step and whooshing into the house. He heard a familiar commanding, yet not unpleasant voice from just inside his doorway, say sharply, “That is quite enough wag and bark, boys. Sit! Sitttt!” When Rafe stepped into his front hall and leaned his back against the door to close it, there were his dogs, miraculously obedient. The anxious creatures were sitting; panting, with heads and eyes lifted to Lavinia’s face, their tails thumping against the floor! 

Almost as if her command to the dogs had extended to end his own chaotic emotions, he paused, staring, and did not speak. Lavinia’s eyes sparkled in greeting and her mouth turned up on one corner. At the same time that she met his stunned gaze, she reached into a pocket somewhere in her skirt and like a conjuror, pulled out a couple of small, round biscuits, and fed them to Oswald and Williver. 

If Rafe had ever permitted himself to exercise his imagination upon a picture of a middle-aged version of the girl he had known and cared for so long ago, he might have come up with a fair estimate of Lavinia’s appearance, for she was not changed in any essential way. She was still tall, of course, nearly eye level with him, and while she was not a slender woman, she had retained that heartiness and vivacity that comes from an active lifestyle. Her face was still a pleasing oval, with rosy cheeks and a slightly upturned nose over a wide and smiling mouth. Her eyes were lively and there were those distinctly expressive, rather crooked, eyebrows. Her auburn hair was lighter coloured than he remembered it, and streaked with grey, but still thick and wavy.  

Coming to himself again (and realising with some embarrassment that he must be staring), Rafe struggled to respond. He wanted to take Mary aside and give her a well-deserved tongue lashing, or maybe Lavinia, for the humiliation he had suffered as a result of her rebuff all those years past. But no. Now that she was here in front of him again, he found he could not bring up the old feelings of bitterness. He numbly settled upon, “It is good to see you after so long a time, Lav-” he stopped himself from calling her by the familiar childhood name, “- Mrs. Fitzroy.” At that moment, Williver let out a low, drawn out whine and raised his eyes toward the lady in hopeful supplication, and Rafe blurted out, “What have you given my dogs?” 

Author Bio:

I grew up with an emotional support book. You know, the girl who never leaves home without one tucked under her arm "in case"?  

For me, this was usually an English classic or high fantasy YA with a strong romantic subplot. When I finally read my first newly-written genre romance novel at the gentle age of forty, I was happily swept away! Once reading romances became a beloved habit, penning my own quickly followed.  

Currently, I live in Michigan, USA, with my delightful family, beloved pets, and a busy bird feeder. I do my utmost to write heartfelt stories about memorable characters with a dash of humor and playful prose. If you're a Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Georgette Heyer or (actor) Richard Armitage fan, you're my kind of book friend!